Life of Pi Quotes
Above all
Pi Patel
Religion is darkness.
Santosh Patel
Religion is obscurity.
Santosh Patel
[reading off the report] Mr. Patel's is an astounding story, courage and endurance unparalleled in the history of ship-wrecks. Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.
Writer
[with a look of disbelief] Bananas don't float. You said the Orangutan floated to you in a bundle of bananas, but bananas don't float.
Younger Insurance Investigator
I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
Adult Pi Patel
[facing a storm on the lifeboat] Richard Parker, come out you have to see this! It's beautiful!
Pi Patel
[on killing a fish] Thank you Lord Vishnu. Thank you for coming in the form of a fish and saving our lives.
Pi Patel
Adult Pi Patel: Now we have to send our little boy to the middle of the Pacific.
Writer: And make me believe in God.
Adult Pi Patel: Yes, we will get there.
I can eat the biscuits, but God made tigers carnivorous, so I must learn to catch fish. If I don't, I'm afraid his last meal would be a skinny vegetarian boy.
Pi Patel
Adult Pi Patel: Faith is a house with many rooms.
Writer: But no room for doubt?
Adult Pi Patel: Oh plenty, on every floor. Doubt is useful, it keeps faith a living thing. After all, you cannot know the strength of your faith until it is tested.
Santosh Patel: We will sail like Columbus.
Pi Patel: But Columbus was looking for India!
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